Just beyond Mars is the Asteroid Belt, millions of huge broken billiard balls smashed by Jupiter's gravity. Sometimes one gets flung out and hits Earth. A Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)-led team just found a way to detect them 100 times better than before, using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. https://news.mit.edu/2024/mit-astronomers-find-smallest-asteroids-ever-detected-main-belt-1209
In Album: Roger's Timeline Photos
Dimension:
600 x 600
File Size:
60.45 Kb
Haha (1)
Loading...